I had a great day off today! Yesterday was all about working around here, but today was NOT! I met my girlfriend (former co-worker of 10 years) for a 3 hour lunch. We’ve always been able to yap and yap, and we hadn’t seen each other for many months, so we had a lot to catch up on. She’s got 4 grandchildren now, and she and her hubby do a LOT of travelling, so she had lots of news! So, we had a long, leisurely lunch and got caught up. From there, we went to a couple of dress shops and I tried on a couple of outfits wedding/shower related), got totally disgusted/depressed, and came home! Gawd…. there’s not going to be anything that looks good on this fat ass!!

I got home, made supper, and watched the Oilers lose AGAIN, with a VERY cranky hubby, and finally said, fuck it, and I came up to bed, and peace and quiet!

Today I got busy and did a lot of cleaning, organizing, and purging in the upstairs bedrooms.  Sarah’s is still a mess of wedding craft supplies, but it’s much better than it was.  I went through a lot of junk in my closet and drawers too, so I hauled out lots of garbage, and clothes to send to goodwill.  It was a beautiful day today, so I could even have the windows open while I worked.  Jess and I had a good visit while I worked.  She and Ben have gone off to the Sparta concert, and I JUST sat down, so when hubby gets home, it’s happy hour!

I’m off now for 10 days of Spring Break.  I can’t begin to tell you how much this thrills me!  The plan is to do some house cleaning and organizing, but more than that, I want to get a lot of the wedding decorations finished.  Sarah came out today, and we got all the candle holders decorated, I made the memory candle for my Dad, we spiffed up the unity candle holders, and candles, we printed and put the votive wrappers on, and added rhinestones.  Now I’m thinking about doing some more of the pew bows.  We’ve got half of them finished.

I also wasted a whole bunch of time trying to get hubby’s laptop to arise from the dead.  Usually I’m pretty good at fixing these things, but this one would hang and not finish booting up.  I restored a backup from 2 days ago, and still nothing.  I decided I’d have to reformat, so I attempted that… only it wouldn’t work, and it started making all kinds of crackling, spitting noises.  That can’t be good!  I did get Ben’s old clunker working again, so hubby is attempting to use that for the time being.  I hesitate to even take in his, because after making all those noises, it can’t be salvaged I’m thinking.  It’s always something.

Jess is here visiting, and will be going home on Tuesday.  Ben seems very happy to see her again.

My thoughts on last night’s American Idol are posted over at :: TV and ME!! :: Go have a visit!

We had a long day yesterday, but a very enjoyable one. I didn’t expect it to be as much fun as it was.

We left yesterday morning just after 10:00 am with our directions from Sarah. She told us it was a 3 hour drive from our house down to Jay’s farm. Hmmmmppphhh… we forgot to take into account that we don’t drive “sarah-speed”, so I had to phone when we were about 40 miles away, telling them that we were obviously going to be LATE! One thing we noticed the closer we got to the farm, is that it was really hilly!! And there were NO trees except around the farm sites themselves. Very different from just 3 hours away, were I grew up farming. All our farmland was completely flat, except one piece of property which had a couple of hills. We had trees all over too, we used to have to clear trees! So there was a real contrast, even though we’re still in the same province.

When we got there, Jay and his Dad were out working on the machinery, getting it all ready for spring seeding. They didn’t have a speck of snow left, and it was 60 degrees out. It was gorgeous! Of course the down-side to early spring, is that everything is brown, dull and muddy! Everyone came out to greet us, and we made our way inside for some lunch. After lunch was all cleaned up, we hopped in my Jeep and drove into Standard to look at the hall where the reception will be held. It’s a typical country hall, Standard is a typical teeny little small town, and it’s going to be great! The hall is a very good size! I’m not totally convinced that we should set it up the way Brenda suggested, but I’ll leave the final call up to Sarah. From there, we drove over to Rosebud (where the wedding will be) and had a tour of the town.

This is where the wedding party and most of the guests will be staying. It’s gorgeous! The whole town is cozy and quaint, and they’ve done everything they can to maintain as much of it’s originality as possible. It’s like stepping back in time, all nestled down in the hills. In mid-summer when everything is green, it’s going to be gorgeous! We also made the decision to hold the rehearsal dinner at the Inn as well, as they are supposed to be hiring a chef and expanding their services in the next month or so. It will be the perfect place! Next we went over to the church, which also sits atop a hill with a wonderful view of the town below. We wandered through it, figuring things out and checking it out. It’s much prettier than it appeared in the pictures. It will be perfect! Especially for the size wedding we’re having. We took a tour of the rest of the town, and then drove around the countryside looking at different land that they have. We also checked out where Laura and Craig are going to be building after their wedding in August.

We got back to the farm around 4:00, and looked through the original 1918 house that’s on the farm site. Joy and Danny currently live there. It’s in amazing condition, considering the age of it! Our “woman folk” went inside and looked through wedding albums of the other 2 daughters, and Brenda (Jay’s Mom) showed us the dress she’d bought for Laura’s wedding. We visited a while, and then got cleaned up, and headed back over to Rosebud for dinner.

They’ve turned an old Mercantile into the “dinner” part of the dinner theatre. It’s really warm and cozy inside. They have live entertainment during dinner. Last night it was a girl’s trio. There is a school for the Arts there, and kids come from all over Canada to attend. These girls were from that school, so they were very talented. Jay’s Dad, Ray also frequently sings at the Merc during the dinners.

To start, we had our choice of 5-6 salads at the salad bar. Then we went back for the entrees. There was baby roasted potatoes, green beans, stir fried vegetables, rice, salmon with a wonderful sauce, chicken, lasagna, and prime rib. There were other things too I’m sure, but I forget exactly which. Then I topped it off with tiramisu for desert. Brenda and I told them they could have whatever they wanted for the meal, but we INSISTED that they have the tiramisu for one of their 2 desert choices. It was to die for! The main reason we went to the dinner theatre, is that the chef that is catering Sarah and Jay’s wedding is the same man that caters the dinner theatre. So, Ray took hubby over to meet him.

Our next stop was a 1/2 block walk over the theatre. Last night’s performance was “On Golden Pond”. It was delightful!! We laughed until we had tears running down our faces! The play was over around 11:00. We said our “thank yous” and “goodbyes”, and hit the highway. We got home at just after 2:00 am! A LONG, but very good day!

Today was NOT a good day! Someone got RIGHT in my face first thing this morning, saying, “Bev you were SO rude on Monday!” I turned around to look at her, because I was sure she was joking, and she WASN’T! I couldn’t believe my ears! I said, “What are you talking about?? I didn’t even see you on Monday!” (she was in, Monday morning, but wasn’t going to come to the classroom, because she was sick…. she left early, and all I saw of her was through the window, as her ass was leaving the building just before noon) “She said I was “hollering” across the hallway with little E… “don’t go near “her” because she’s sick” or some such thing. I said, “I have NO idea what you’re talking about……I don’t remember any such thing at ALL.” Then I just turned back to what I was doing, waiting for her to leave.

The worst part about this attack, was that #1, 3 of the woman we work with in the room were all standing there, embarrassed, not knowing which way to look, and not having a clue what she was talking about! the other ridiculous part, is she’d been gone ALL week, and still had “this” stuck in her throat! Good gawd bitch, get a life!

This is NOT the first time she’s done this to me. But it WILL be the last.

I had a whole big long post typed up last night, griping about parents who send their kids to school sick, to share with the rest of the class, and cop an attitude when asked about it. HELLO… your kid is not the only one here! I don’t care if childcare is an issue. The health of the other kids is a much bigger issue. You had kids, it’s up to you to figure it out. If your child barfs in the morning…….he’s likely going to barf again …. even if he “really wanted to come to school”. Who’s the adult? And for the record…….I’m not a fan of cleaning up the barf! Sheesh

Here’s a picture of Sarah at work in the operating room. She works in the children’s hospital. In fact, she assisted in the surgery that was done last week on the little girl I work with in our morning group.

Sarah said one nice thing about the fugly clothes you wear in the OR, you just get up, wash your face, brush your teeth, put nice makeup on your eyes, and go to work. Don’t need to do hair, because you’ve got a shower cap on your head, and the only part of you that anyone sees is your eyes!

How are you enjoying the time change?? I hate it!! I was awake still at after 1:00 am, and my alarm went at 5:45 this morning. I was awake several times during that time as well. It’s black as SOOT outside, and I’m back to leaving to work in the pitch black at 8:00 AM. It’s depressing I’m telling you! I wish they’d just leave it alone!

Another weekend has come and gone. It doesn’t feel like much got accomplished, although I set up 2 more new websites, were I will eventually be doing more Pay Per Post opportunities. I set up Shops For Fun and TV & Me.
There’s not too much there yet, but over time, I’ll get things in order. Because of my day being spent on setting up the 2 new websites, I didn’t get into doing any pew bows. Hopefully SOON! It’s just over 4 months now until the wedding!

The Oilers lost again tonight, but they actually played pretty well considering we’re playing with not too much more than a band of rookies due to 10 players being out with injuries. I feel so bad for them. They played well enough to win tonight, but just aren’t having much luck finding the back of the net! Oh well… there’s always next year. We have until Wednesday to decide if we’re renewing our season tickets or not.

This is what we have to tolerate every time we’re doing wedding crafts! He’s always laying smack in the middle of whatever we’re doing, or hauling flowers or ribbon, or tulle away, chasing ribbon ends while we’re winding, and tying, and doing up bows. Then, there’s the “wedding room”…. it’s Sarah’s old bedroom, and it is “littered” with boxes of vases, and beads, and tulle and organza, candles, silk flowers, candle holders, etc. Last night, Sarah opened the door (which is tightly shut at all times) to get some more ribbon, and she yells, “Mom! Help! There’s vermin in here!” I had to go help her roust out 4 snoopy cats out from under the boxes and piles! It was like playing “whack-a-mole”! We’d wrangle one down, and another would sneak back in! heh